Improvement in ice-cream freezers



S. M. GOSSON.

ICE-CREAM FREEZER.

Patented Jan. 4-, 1876.

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N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D10.

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.SYLVAIN M. eosson, OF WHISTLER, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ICE-CREAM FREEZERS;

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No: 171,663, dated Januaryi, 1876; application filed September 11, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SYLVAIN M. Gos- SON, of Whistler, in the county ofMobile and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Ice-Cream Freezer,

of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved freezer. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection of the same, taken through the line as m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is adetail cross-section of the can, taken through the line 3 y, Fig. 2.Fig. 4 is a detail section, showing the connection of frame anduprights. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a set of buckets.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved ice-creamfreezer, which will enable ice-cream of any desired number of difierentflavors to be kept distinct and separate while being frozen, and whichshall be simple in construction, convenient in use, and effective inoperation, freezing the creamquickly, doing its work with a much lessoutlay of labor, ice, and salt than ordinary freezers.

The invention consists in the ring-can, provided with the radialpartitions, and with the cross-bars or spider for connecting it with thedriving-shaft; in the cover provided with the funnel-tube, thecross-bar, and the lugs, in combination with the ring-can, and with thekeepers attached to said can; in the combina-f; tion of the slidingframe, the sliding gears wheel, and the rack with the shafts, and withthe uprights of the frame-work; and in thev combination fthe bucketswith the compartments of the ring-can, as hereinafter fully described. I

A is the tub, in the center of the bottom of which is secured a step, ato receive the lower end of the shaft B. To the bottom of the tub A isattached an arched or bridge bar, o through a hole in the center ofwhich the shaft B passes, and upon the upper side of which rests acollar, 1), formed upon the said shaft B. G is a ring-can, the outerwallof which is made enough smaller than the tub A, to allow sufficientspace for the ice, and the inner wall of which is made of such adiameter as to furnish space for ice around the shaft B. The interior orring space of the can 0 is divided into four, more or less, compartmentsby radial partitions 0 D are buckets, pans, or cups, which are made ofsuch a shape as to fit into the compartments of the can 0, and of a sizedepending upon the number'of buckets to be used ineach compartment. Thebuckets D are provided with covers d, and with lugs 01 upon their ends,to serve as handles in handling them, and to receive the arms of theloop or bail E, by means of which they are lowered into and raised outof the compartments of the can 0. The arms of the bails E have hooksformed upon their ends to hook upon the lugs 01 of the lower bucket D.To the bottom of the can 0 are attached two bars, 0 which cross thelower end of the central cavity of the can O, and'have a square holeformed through their center to receive the shaft B, so that the can maybe revolved by the revolution of the said shaft B. The bars or spider 0rest upon the collar 11 of the shaft B, and thus support the can 0. Tothe cover F of the can 0 is attached a cross-bar, f which has a squarehole formed through its center to receive the shaft B. The cover F isprovided with a tube, f the lower end of which fits into the centralcavity of the can 0, and its upper end projects and is made flaring, toserve as a funnel for convenience in introducing the ice and salt intothe central cavity of the can C. To the cover F are attached lugs fwhich project downward to enter keepers 0 attached to the opposite sidesof the upper part of the can 0, to prevent the said cover and can fromturning upon each other. The upper end of the shaft B enters a squarehole formed in the lower end of the short vertical shaft G, whichrevolves in bearings attached to the frame P, that slides up and downupon the uprights H, and has a bevel-gear wheel, I, attached to itsupper end. Into the teeth of the gear-wheel I mesh the teeth of abevelgear wheel, J, attached to a horizontal shaft,

K, which revolves in bearings attached to the sliding frame P, and toone or both the ends of which is attached a crank, L. To the horizontalshaft K is attached one or two balancewheels, M, according to the sizeof the apparatus. Upon the shaft K is placed a gear wheel, N, which isconnected with it by a 2 r 11mins tongue and groove,so that -the saidwheelmaybe carried around by and with said shaft, but may beslidlongitudinallyupou it, to throw the said gear-wheel into and out ofgear with the toothed bar 0, attached to one of the uprights H, so thatby throwingthe wheel N into gear with the rack O and turning the shaftK, the frame 1? and the gearing may be raised away from the shaft B. Asthe frame P rises its'top cross-bar strikes against and catches upon aspring-catch, Q, attached to the cross-bar 71/, that connects the upperends of the uprights H. The lower ends of the uprights H are attachedtothe middle parts of the side bars of the frame R, which is hinged at oneend to the ear of the tub A, and the other end of which catches,

j when shut down, upon a spring-catch, S, at-

tachedoto the other ear of said tub.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patcut- 1. The ring-can 0, provided with the radial partition0, and with the crossbars, or spider o for connecting it with its shaftB, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The cover F, provided with the funneltube f, the cross-bar f and thelugs f, in combination with the ring-can G, and with thekeepers'cflattached to said can, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

The combination of the sliding frame P, the sliding gear-wheel N, andthe rack O with the shafts G K and the uprights H of the frame-Work R H11/, substantially as herein shown and describe 4. The combination ofthe buckets D with the compartments of the ring-can O, substantially asherein shown and described.

SYLVAIN M. Gosso'N,

Witnesses:

B. F. CARVER, 1 E. W. NIX.

